Where are you located? 你的居住地區？

Fort Atkinson, WI 53538

Art medium or relation 藝術體裁或联系：

Other其他

About Me (bio) 個人簡曆:

Xiaohong Zhang was born in Hubei, China. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 2002. She is an Associate Professor in Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Xiaohong Zhang's works have been displayed in over 40 shows in Canada, Japan, Scotland, China, as well as California, New York and Philadelphia in the U.S. Her works have been included in consecutive Wisconsin Triennial juried exhibitions in 2007 and 2010 at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin. She is a prizewinner of "The Moment At Hand” juried international competition in 2009 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Kohler, Wisconsin. Her works in "The Moment At Hand" show were also featured in a well-recognized professional Magazine, “Ceramics Monthly” in February 2009. In 2009 Zhang was accepted to the juried competition "Current Tendencies” as one of ten artists from Wisconsin at Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She also won an Honorable Mention Award in the “Circling the Globe Through Women’s Lives” international juried competition.

In summer 2008 Zhang received the prestigious International Kohler Arts/Industry Residency Award. Three of her art pieces have been on permanently collection at the Michael Kohler Art Center.

Zhang specializes in large-scale northern Chinese style paper cutting. As an artistic tradition, paper cutting dates back to the sixth century making it one of the oldest art forms in China. She started to use scissors to cut different symbols with great joy when she was a child and then graduated to working with blades and cotton acid free paper to make her own paper-cutting pieces. Since 2007 she started to blend the traditional paper cutting with digital printing on Japanese rice paper. By combining paper cutting, a Chinese art form dating to the sixth century, with stylized depictions of contemporary consumerism and aesthetics, Zhang’s work explores the powerful impact of Western cultural dominance on Chinese society.

Zhang emigrated from China to the United States in 1997, and her experiences as a first-generation immigrant inform much of her work, which often interrogates historical and cultural themes from a Chinese perspective. The artist also addresses the complexities inherent in straddling two distinct cultural worlds.

Zhang is the faculty organizer for the 2011-2012 "Across the Divide" international traveling exhibition. “Across the Divide” exhibition introduced twenty-four Chinese artists who have been teaching in 24 colleges in over 15 states throughout the United States. Prior to their graduate studies in America, most of these artists had acquired an initial studio experience in undergraduate training from China. The catalog book also titled, “Across the Divide” received 2012 Gold ADDY Award in the Madison/Milwaukee area and 2012 Silver ADDY in the Midwestern District for its creative excellence.

Website 網站:

http://www.xiaohongzhang.com

What language do you speak? 你通曉哪些語言？

Chinese & English

How did you hear about us? 你如何知道我們？

A friend

Are you a member of Chinese Culture Center? 你是中華文化中心的會員嗎？

I'm interested-please send me the information